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Another five minutes of questioning. Mr. Huffman of california. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I wanted to be at the hearing because i represent earthquake country, tsunami country. I think its an important subject with some helpful testimony. I want to thank the witnesses for their contributions. Mr. Chairman, i also wanted to be here to thank you. As a new member of congress, thing is the first hearing ive attended of any subcommittee in the Natural Resources committee that wasnt a loaded partisan t...

On a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we spoke with the librarys president and ceo, anthony marx, but the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . New York Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the boroughs we serve, as well as f...

Public service. Thank you for attending todays session, its great to see all of you in person. Its been three years, so [applause] and during this past three years, we cant thank all of you enough for your support of the library of congress back home. Now, we want to remind you that the library is there for you, whether youre here in washington or youre at your library back home in your communities. We are the Nations Library and its at your disposal to use anytime. So if you want to look at Tho...

The about 2100 employees the. A budget of about 280 million a year operating. About half comes from the city of new york. The largest system. The other half comes from the return on of billion dollars endowment of the private foundation that employes me. And then we raise somewhere between 80 and 100 million a year. Also somewhere in the vicinity of where your 50 million a year on capital improvements. Again, most comes from the city, but it can also come from private sources. It is an amazing s...

Spoke with the librarys president and ceo anthony mark, about the hoyt of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . Guest a Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the burroughs, as well as four Important Research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system and also t...

The cold front and the storms closer to us. Although were well above average, once the cold front comes through. Temperatures will drop down substantially into the 70s by tomorrow. Thats just the beginning of cooler weather. Ill let you know what to expect with the sevenday forecast. For now, well check in with jillian with a closer look at traffic. Good morning, we have the first accident of the morning at montgomery county. Use caution if youre heading out in that direction, a vehicle went int...

Oil is higher. We have a fox business exclusive with the chairman and ceo of kodiak. He is all u. S. We will discuss whether this is just a temporary boom for the company. Will nokia five microsoft . It is spiking by 31 . A pretty big deal. We have our allstar tech panel weighing in. In another huge youll, verizon spending 130 billion to gain full control of Verizon Wireless lets get to the big issue today. The flow is changing. Rich edson is with us right now. He is looking at all of this. Rich...

Only 43 touchtone 2 of the reduction in assets. Having claimed it would raise 0 million for furniture, fixtures and equipment, the library would have been ahead and received four times the benefit if the friends had gone out of business and turned over its assets in the year 2000. Not only to the board of supervisors not hold these fundraisers accountable, but the most unscrupulous supervisors will go to Library Openings to support the friends of the library and present themselves as benefactors...

Homeless in the streets of San Francisco [speaker not understood]. Our president decided to ending the veteran homeless. Hes going to give them housing and were going to ask every one of you as the oldest homeless advocate, i would like to ask the supervisor [speaker not understood] my city to have list for each one of the homeless in your district. If they are veteran, they are going to get housing. If they are not veteran, i work now behind this issue to help our sheriff to give warm job for t...

Francisco. Thank you for your work at the school, and thank you for you worked with my children as well. Thank you for your service. Thank you, john. [cheering and applauding] wow, i just feel so blessed and honored. First giving honor to god for me even being here. I just feel like im just representing one of many educators, parent educators, counselors, janitors, everyone that works in the schools with our kids. I want to really thank my daughter erica and my granddaughter jerica and my niece ...